Monday, August 10, 2015

Daily Dose


From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson

A TOAD CAN DIE OF LIGHT!

A toad can die of light!
Death is the common right
Of toads and men,--
Of earl and midge
The privilege.
Why swagger then?
The gnat's supremacy
Is large as thine.

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